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J. T. FOSTBRQ MACHINE FOR MAKING PASTEBOARD BOXES..

' N0. 62,952. 4, Patented Mar. 19, 1867.

Int/522207 guil gtatrs gaunt ffii .JOHN 'TQFOSTER, or JERSEY CITY, NEWJERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 62,952, dated March 19,1867. Y

MACHINE FOR MAKING PASTEB OABD BOX ES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, John .T. Fosrnu, of Jersey City, in (he c'onntyofHudson,- and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement on Machines for Making Paper, Pasteboard, and other Box esor Cases, ofwhlch the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompnnying drawing, forming part of thisspecificdtion and in which-- Figure 1 represents a plan of the machine.

Figure 2, a longitudinal vertical section thereof and Figure 3, a frontend view of the same. I

Like letters indicate like parts throughout the several-figures,

My invention has reference to the manufacture of boxes or codes ofpaper, or other suitable pliable material, l

and, as represented-in the accompanying drawing, more particularlyrelatesto the manufacture of boxes or cases with open ends, into which adrawer that may be of corresponding material is designed to slide, suchas now in use for matches, lozenges, and other articles; and the natureof my invention consists in a combination of a reciprocating feeding barthat takes the'blank from an automatically adj ustablc pile, and apeculiarly constructed former, that, as 'the blank .is drawn or forcedthrough it by the bar, creases and shapes the blank, turning suc=cessively the ends or opposite edges of it and causing them to overlap;and furthermore, in combination with these devices, grooved settingdisks or wheels that, in the further advance of the blahk by the actionof the bar through them, sets and gives a square or right-angled finishto the edges of the box or case.

rRefe-rring'to the accompanying drawing, A represents the frame, whichmay be of any suitabledcscripticn,

and B. the bed ontablc of the machine. 7 This bed has a shit out throughand across it, forming a delivery aperture or mouth to the pileof'blanks b, of or from a vertical bolg g-arranged below the bed, thetop blank of the pile being continuously, that is, eachlunder blankiii-succession, kept up to the upper level of the table and 7 against areciprocating feeding bar, D, by a platforin or sliding lifter, E,caused to press continuously upward by means of a spring or weight,Econnectcd by cor'd, rope, or chain, a, passing over a pulley, d, withan arm, a, of n sockct,-jf, which is attached to the platen and slideson a guide-rod, g. The feeding harD has a horivzontalr eciprocatingaction on and along the bed, and may work through guides, h h, the frontoneof which may also serve as a stop and straightener to the top blankof the pile against any tendency of the feeding bar inits back movementto drag it. Any suitable mechanism may b e-employed to give to thefeeding bar its reciproe'atingmotion, say, for instance, a. crank, G,pitman, z', an'd rockinglovers,j k. In theforward'eMlof the bar D isinserted a spring presscr-foot or dog, Z, made capable of slightlyrising and falling, and formed on its pressing face with teeth orgriping' formations so shaped as in the advance feed of the bar D to layhold of a paper blank and carry it forward, but in the back stroke of itto pass easily over or only slightly press in a backward direction onthe next top-blank of the pile in passing over it. Tho-former, throughwhich the blank thus taken from the pile is dragged or forced, consistsof cheeks, H H, made with slightly flaring and curved or sloping frontedges, m m, vertical sides, n n, and curved or spiral folders, r'r,'the'one of which is in advance of the other. As the blank carried forward bythe feeding bar D strikes at its front edges the edges m m', it isbeater turned up on either side ofjhg bar, and as it strikes andfpusscsthe forum-(1., folder 1- its onev end or edgc'is gradually creased andbent over the upper edge of the bar, and.-nfterward,' in passing theother folder 1-, its

opposite end similarly creased and bent over so as to overlap the firstbent and or edge. The boxer case thus shaped is', by the continuingadvance of the bar D, forced-or carried out of the former and throughbetween angularly arranged grooved setting disks or wheels, S 88 S,which give the set oriinish tothe several bends of the box or case bybearing down on the corners or edgesand faces of the bonds as the box orcase iscarried in a tight or close manner in between and through them,Thus set, the box or case maybe slippcd'off the forward end of the barD, or be forced therefrom in the batik action of the latter .by the endsof the loose box striking the wheels S S S S nndwithdrawal of 'the barfrom the box. The same action is repeated till'the several blanks in apileare worked up, when, or before, additional blanks may be inserted intlwbo'xfCr The boxes or CaSOs'thus formed have their overlnpping-edgesafterward gummed-or secured in the usual or any suitable manner. A

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,.is--.

1. The combination,- withthe reciprocating feeding ,bar D,-'of a former,so constructed nsthat .in theme motion ofthe bar the blank is cneos'edand bentover the same and its one edgefor ond mode to overlap the other,substantially as speelfied. l V v v I 2. 'The' combination, witlr'thereciproolting' feeding hm D nnd'former, operating as described, atsetting diskior wheels arranged to acton the boatellgeg of the boxor'cosea's it is leliveredfrom the former, essentially as herein aetforth. i 4

" J. T. .FOS'LER.-

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A.. L1; Crane, G. W. Rm;

